US telecommunications equipment maker CommScope will acquire Arris, in a $7.4B deal valued at $5.69 billion, with the difference comprised of CommScope’s assumption of Arris’s debt. As part of the deal, the Carlyle Group will make a $1M equity investment in CommScope for an approximate 16% stake in the new company.
CommScope’s CEO Eddie Edwards has claimed the two companies’ product lines are complementary, and that the combined company will “enable end-to-end wired and wireless communications infrastructure solutions that neither company could otherwise achieve on its own.”
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2019.

Display shipments for notebook PCs are forecast to increase by 5 percent in 2017 to 177 million units compared to the previous year, while notebook PC unit shipments are expected to remain flat during the same period.

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Comcast, the largest pay TV operator in the US, is set to offer a low cost ‘streaming cable’ pay TV service. The $15 per month service, Stream, will only be available to Comcast’s internet customers as the service uses the managed-IP part of Comcast’s cable infrastructure to deliver video and not the open internet.

Dish TV is adding HBO to its over-the-top Sling TV service. The premium pay TV content provider will be available for $15 a month as an add-on package. The deal comes as part of a larger carriage deal between Turner Networks covering satellite and OTT.

Dish is once again boosting the channel lineup of its Sling TV offering by including A+E networks. A+E, History, Lifetime and H2 have joined the core package, boosting the channel line up to 21 for Sling TV’s “Best of Live TV” package, keeping the price at $20 /mo. In addition, FYI and Lifetime Movie Network have been added to the $5 /mo add-on package, Lifestyle extra.

The production of Q (quarter) panels is an emerging business model for Chinese and Taiwanese tablet panel makers which shifts more of the panel production process to Chinese solution providers. Through this process, Jason Hsu, senior analyst in IHS, reports that both the panel maker and the solution provider benefit.

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